Hair update- Well as you can see by the picture not too much has gotten better. Some of the shampoos, topicals, light therapy stuff I’m using helps with the shed, but then every so often it just comes out in a massive amount out of nowhere. I haven’t been able to see a pattern to the trigger and it’s super frustrating.
I went to the hair dermatologist as you all saw and started steroid injections in the scalp, oral monoxidil and finesteride. Unfortunately, I had to stop all of these as the injections caused divets in my scalp and the combo of the other two left me with crazy tingly and cramping legs and pop up swelling. There are two new medications out one is called Ritlecitinib and Olumiant.
To be completely honest, with the side effects I had from the others I’m super nervous to try another one, so if you’ve tried these please let me know your thoughts!
I started with a functional medical doctor and did the gamut of testing. Most notable was very high cortisol levels which could...
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